It’s that holly jolly season to spend time with your loved ones, dust off your Christmas tree lights, and reflect on all the great moments you’ve had in the past year — especially your greatest gaming moments!

Here in our Bandai Namco Games America office, we’ve experienced some great highs this year, like finally beating a boss in Dark Souls II with co-workers cheering us on, as well as some face palming lows, like accidentally rolling off a cliff in Dark Souls II… with co-workers watching.

Nonetheless, 2014 has been a great year.

Since the beginning we have prided ourselves on bringing well-loved anime franchises to video games in the West, and 2014 was no exception. Kicking off the year, we launched Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z and One Piece: Romance Dawn and kept the anime train rolling throughout the year with Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution and Dynasty Warriors: Gundam Reborn for our anime fans.

Speaking of fans, something needs to be said about our “Tales of” fans. The immense support and devotion we receive from our “Tales of” fans has spurred and motivated the Bandai Namco team to localize more and more Tales of games and prove that classic JRPGs are as strong as ever! Just in 2014, we were able to bring over Tales of Symphonia Chronicles, Tales of Xillia 2, and Tales of Hearts R and the reception for each one was fabulous!

However, the biggest highlight from 2014 that all of us at Bandai Namco Games America would agree on would be the much anticipated and celebrated launch of Dark Souls II. The Bandai Namco elves worked long hours and late into the nights, even during the 2013 holiday season, and boy did all that hard work pay off! With over 400 million in-game deaths worldwide from the game’s launch until now, we believe it’s safe to say that Dark Souls II is the most challenging and punishing, yet gloriously rewarding, action RPG experience that has come out of the Bandai Namco Games lineup to date.

With 2015 creeping up fast, we fully intend to keep the 2014 momentum going and hope everybody is looking forward to another fantastic year of epic battles, nail-biting victories, and pwning noobs! But for now, have a wonderful holiday season and happy New Year!

Thanks for all the great content this year and all the upcoming stuff too.

I hope you can release One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 on Vita before 3. It would be nice to have the Vita version finally released here. With 3 confirmed for Vita too [which surprised me tbh], it would be a good reason to do it.

Also really hope we see Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth come over. I’ll be importing in April, but I want it in English. Tales of Innocence R would be nice too ;3

Merry Christmas! Thanks for all the “Tales of” games this and hopefully even more this coming 2015! You know what we mean *wink* Tales of Innocence R *wink*

Hopefully, 2015 will also be a year of Digimon! Bring us Digimon Cyber Sleuth please!
Maybe even God Eater 2 Rage Burst? There’s so many we want localized from you! Hopefully we’ll get some of them here.

Bandai Namco FTW!!! Tales of Hearts R is great and the Symphonia Chronicles collectors ed. was outstanding (I have the figures on my desk at work XD), even though I can hardly understand Japanese, I got an import of Tales of Vesperia for ps3. I’m really hoping that Innocence R and the new Digimon Cyber Sleuth games will come to the US. In fact Bandai Namco, Localize Everything!!!!! Old games, New games everything is just fantastic. Can’t wait to see what you guys have planned for 2015, Happy (insert you holiday of choice)!

THANK YOU GUYS! You’re literally saving the vita! Merry xmas and happy new year! I wish you the very best for the upcoming year and the best sales ever too! :) please keep it up and don’t stop supporting the vita and you’ll have our love (and money haha) n_n

@19 if you don’t know how to read go to the school and learn how to do it instead of acting like an idiot saying “no dub no buy”… I hate the guys like you who don’t suppor a great game/company just because they don’t know how to read xD

Bamco, thanks for the localizations. Please bring over Digimon Cyber Sleuth and God Eater 2: Rage Burst for Vita!!!!
Physical, Digital only, Sub, Dub, I really don’t care. I just want to play them in English!!

Also, great job on bringing over J-stars Victory Vs, Day 1 buy for me on Vita. I read somewhere that a few characters are gonna be cut from the western release, as long as it’s not Himura Kenshin, I’m good!!

We need just Digimon Story Cyber Slueth in America AND Europe (with multi language sub). It´s nice for Tales of series to have a stand in the west now but some Games need support to… like Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth (yes, i pre-orderd my japanese copy but need a Release with german or at least english sub).

But still wish all at Bandai Namco a merry christmas and a happy new year :D

For me, the most positive sign was to see Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment perform “above forecast expectations” in the West. (for my part, I’m still on level 95, and have completed the “main” Hollow Area campaign – although I’m havign trouble with one of the bosses in the “new” post-update Hollow Area region.)

For 2015, top of my wish list would be a retal copy of Sword Art Online: Lost Song on Vita (as well as retail PS3 copies for those wishing to play the game on that platform).

Following that, I’d also like to see Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei: Out of Order, God Eater 2: Rage Burst, Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth (while I wouldn’t consider myself a fan of the Digimon franchise, the recent Jump Festa promo looks promising), and maybe one or two of the music/rhythm games which Bandai Namco Japan have for various PlayStation platforms (such as HaNaYaMaTa: Yosakoi Live! or Idolm@ster: One For All).

I just wish that a Puchim@s game existed for me to add to the request file…

(Also, might it be possible to offer some of the Japanese game OSTs on iTunes or 7Digital? The OST for Out of Order sounds like it might be good, while I’d be keen to hear more of what Lost Song will have to offer.)

Merry Christmas to you as well. This has been an excellent year of gamin. So many games this year, especially Tales. I’m still currently playing Tales of Hearts R for me PSVita amongst other JRPG games I have including Persona 4 golden. I’m pumped up for more Tales of games coming to the US. Tales of Innocence R, Tales of Zestiria. Oh I even forgot about Vesperia since it may not get localized, but the more Tales the better. Have a great year Tales staff and Namco Bandai. :)

Merry Christmas!!!
I’m hoping for these localizations next year.
Sword Art Online: Lost Song (Physical Release please!!!)
God Eater 2 Burst
Digimon Story CS
Tales of Innocence R
Praying they’re announced and all get physical releases.
I’ll be buying DBZ, JStar, Naruto and Maybe OP next year on Vita or PS4 depends on choice and PS4 benefits.

The sweet loving Bandai Namco had gave us gamers unforgettable memories and moments leaving us breathless., more will be will heading our way as we asks sending us to experience it once again . So embrace yourselves guys and Happy Holidays .

Still no love for Ace Combat anywhere. Not really shocking, but I suppose it’s really the RPGs that people play from Bandai Namco here. While everyone else celebrates Dark Souls and Tales, I’ll just continue enjoying the skies of battle.